Common knowledge

Everything your character grew up knowing

There is no
going around.

One connected body of dead water wraps the world. Nothing survives on its surface. Every road between continents goes through the sky.

Enter the field guide I am ready for Session I

A steam liftcraft on its difficult third approach to a working Kaerys berth

ColdwaterThe ThreadKaerysAbout twelve hours by steam · every correction has a crew

Field plate · third approach

One world

Five continents divided by one connected body of dead water.

Five rungs

Riders, herds, envelopes, steam, and memory crystal share the sky.

Eight years

Since the war ended in an armistice that settled nothing.

Chapter oneThe inherited world

The Still

A sea that is not a sea.

A flat pewter plane without wave, reflection, wake, or tide. A low fog lid that has occupied the same horizon since before anyone’s grandmother. Rivers and enclosed basins remain ordinary water; none of them joins one continent to another.

“There is only choosing which arm to cross—and how wide it is where you cross it.”

A path into the campaign

Start with the world.
End where you wake.

Read in order for a guided primer, or enter anywhere and follow what catches.

Learn the shape

The Still, five continents, and the routes that decide what distance means.

Read the sky

Five centuries of flight and the grudges every vessel carries into port.

Know the Windlass

One city, two laws, and the shared place every character left unfinished.

Find your place

Turn lore into an origin, inheritance, belief, and live connection.

Approach Session I

The memory boundary and the final shared facts before the table takes over.

The world you inherit

Its miracles have invoices.

Memory crystal made the impossible ordinary. It opened routes the empire could not tax, ended one monopoly, financed both sides of a war, and built an economy that turns a person’s best skill into machinery.

Follow the cost

A navigator teaching two children an obsolete herd route on a wet Meetsend roof

Meetsend Row · one household roof

Your shared history

Kaerys to the charts.
The Windlass to everyone who works.

Every player character spent part of their first four levels in the narrowest crossing’s divided port. You need not be born there. You need not have known one another. You did leave something unfinished.

Walk the painted lines

When the world feels lived in

Choose what it made of you.

The character forge turns place and history into five useful decisions—then the prologue carries those decisions to the instant play begins.

Find your place Skip to the prologue